Henry James: Novels 1901-1902 (LOA #162): The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove

This Library of America volume brings together one of Henry James’s most unusual experiments and one of his most beloved masterpieces

Writing to his friend William Dean Howells, Henry James characterized his experimental novel, The Sacred Fount, as the only one of his novels to be told in the first person, as “a fine flight into the high fantastic.” While traveling to the country house of Newmarch for a weekend party, the nameless narrator becomes obsessed with the idea that a person may bec...